Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 23rd Apr 2008 11:19 UTC, submitted by Francis Kuntz
Does anyone remember the chip start-up P.A. Semi? This company made its rounds around the internet in 2005, when it lifted the veil of secrecy on a new, highly efficient PowerPC processor it had been working on. 2005 Being the year that Apple announced its switch to Intel, people started to doubt Apple's reasons. A few months later, in May 2006, it became known that Apple had been working with P.A. Semi right before Apple made the switch. P.A. Semi released their chip a year later, and now the company has been bought by... Apple.
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the only processor the company if offering right now falls somewhere between the intel atom and intel core 2. it might be an alternative to x86-processors for laptops, settop-boxes, tablets etc. - but it can't compete with the arm-processors in iphone & ipod on the low end or the intels core 2 processors on the high end.
maybe it's just for patents, man-power, some undisclosed project which where started after the negotation for an successor for ibm's g5 failed. at least i don't see what they can offer apple right now.